Friday, April 28, 2017

So I was playing around with the original Manic Miner game, using a ZX Spectrum .SNA snap shot file (so an actual memory image), and while extracting levels etc. I also extracted graphics - which were obviously included as well.

For the record, I didn't reverse engineer all this, I just used one of the many pages out there describing it. ( http://www.icemark.com/dataformats/manic/mmformat.htm )

But it also occurred to me that it might be nice to have these graphics readily available for folk to play with, it would certainly have been handy when I was doing my remake a few months ago! So here's what I've extracted....

So, this is the baddies that come with each level, the items (1 per level), the 8 tiles (left to right per level) in colour, and in B/W, and then Miner Willy himself. There are several "special" baddies, and if I extract them I'll add them here as well.

I might see if I can go and grab the Z Spectrum font from the ROM, because I couldn't find it as a simple strip at the original size.

I'll just mention the sprites move through the graphic, so the animation frame and X position is usually....